COMPARABILITY OF CORRELATES OF ORIGINAL AND REVISED WECHSLER ADULT INTELLIGENCE SCALES IN AN ALCOHOL-ABUSING POPULATION

The correlates of the original and revised Wechsler scales were invest igated among a sample of alcohol abusers referred for assessment of po ssible intellectual impairment. Fifty of the subjects were assessed wi th the original scale, while 44 were examined with the revised scale. The correlates of the two scales with other intellectual, demographic, and drinking variables suggested that the established correlates of t he original scale may be cautiously assumed to hold for the revised ve rsion.